asperity Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 It's not often I'm wrong, but I'm right again. The biased BBC long ago gave up any pretence of impartiality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 So tell us where you get your impartial News from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 14, 2009 Report Share Posted February 14, 2009 Warrington Worldwide News and this forum Certainly NOT the mainstream media which is more interested in celebrities and soap operas than the real news anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Upto another 20,000 jobs to go at RBS worldwide according to the latest news. Does that mean that UK people won't have to deal with foreign call centres in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Saw the following in today's Times: "The head Royal Bank of Scotland?s troubled credit markets unit has parted company with the group. Symon Drake Brockman, who ran a unit that helped RBS run up the biggest loss in corporate history, has left to ?focus on other opportunities?, said the bank today. ?Symon played a key role in the growth and strategic development of GBM (global banking and markets) and we wish him well for the future,? an RBS spokesman said." With a track record like that, I'm just wondering what the "other opportunities" are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Asset stripper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 I found the following in a recent RBS annual report: "The Group has a comprehensive pre-employment screening policy to guard against possible infiltration and employee related fraud. In addition to existing workplace security measures, all people engaged in the Group are screened prior to commencing employment." Obviously fitness to be a Chief Executive is excluded from the pre employment screening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 You cannot take a logical approach these days, Paul. It doesn't compute!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 RBS is making ?1.7 Billion (of taxpayer's money) available for mortgages. Good news? Yes, but only if you're buying a house in Scotland. Nothing beats looking after your own eh!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I see from yesterdays papers that RBS have refused to lend Wrekin (the building company founded in the 1960's) 2 or 3 million pounds to help them over a cash flow problem. This is despite the company having over 40 million pounds worth of orders on their books. The company will close putting up to 500 people out of work. Unbelievable..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Kind of goes against what the Gov, said about bailing out the banks so that they could help others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 It does.... and even more so when you look on their website and it has at least 4 major councils as customers including Halton!! RBS should be made to give them the money now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 The government should cut out the middlemen and give the money to Wrekin and get it back from RBS who is obviously run by nomarks and nobheads. Instead of bailing out the banks the government should run them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Times: EXTRAORDINARY new details of the extravagance of Sir Fred Goodwin?s reign at the Royal Bank of Scotland have been revealed by a whistleblower. An RBS insider claims the disgraced former chief executive squandered vast sums empire-building and indulging his personal tastes as the bank ran up huge losses. The well-placed source has told how the bank allegedly: - Redecorated the lobby outside Goodwin?s office with wallpaper costing ?1,000 a roll because someone had made a tiny stain on one surface. - Spent ?5.3m lavishly refurbishing a grade A listed building ? styled ?Sir Fred?s Pleasure Dome? by staff ? that was barely used. - Paid out ?100,000 a month on part-time chauffeurs. - Flew fruit in daily from Paris and upbraided staff about ?rogue biscuits? when pink wafers were included with other boardroom snacks. - Twice changed ?100-a-square yard carpeting in two vast boardrooms because Goodwin ?didn?t like the shade of amber?. The bank have not denied the claims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Daily Telegraph have reported the following: "The home of disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin has been vandalised. Windows were smashed at the ex-RBS chief's house in Edinburgh and in a Mercedes which was parked in the driveway. Lothian and Borders police are investigating after they were called out just before 5am to a report of vandalism. It is not known if anyone was in the house at the time of the attack or who reported the incident and there were no obvious signs of activity inside this morning." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Update "Anti-capitalists today claimed responsibility for vandalising the home of disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin. A group calling themselves Bank Bosses Are Criminals released a statement hours later ominously warning it was only the start of a campaign against executives. It said: 'We are angry that rich people like him are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. 'This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning.' " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 Seems Sir Fred has blown Lord Myers version of events out of the water?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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